Hello,
How are you?
I sold my 2009 macbook pro.
It was the 17 inch model.
It had the core 2 duo 2.66, gforce 9600 and I had installed an ocz agility 1.
Now, I'm looking for a new machine.
I use my computer just for general web and bogs and photography.
I just use lightroom, PhotoShop CS5, photomatix pro and the web browser.
I already have external firewire hard drives, so storage is not a concern.
I'm really thinking about buying a 13 inch air with the sandy bridge I5 and a thunderbolt display.
This way I could have a great display with ips for photo edit, an excellent dock with fast ports and have a truly portable laptop, unlike my 17 inch pro.
The other option was a 27 inch I5 imac.
It was cheaper. The thing is I don't really like the integrated display and computer concept. Although more expensive, a separate display could last me several laptops or computer generations.
so, after all this, if you've read this far, these are my questions to you:
- is the air really faster and noticiable more performant than my old macbook pro?
- for what I said I would use the computer, would the air do a good job?
- would the imac option be that much faster?
- any of you use the air for similar tasks? Any problems with raw files?
- any other advice?
Please help me out.
Thank you!
Cheers!
How are you?
I sold my 2009 macbook pro.
It was the 17 inch model.
It had the core 2 duo 2.66, gforce 9600 and I had installed an ocz agility 1.
Now, I'm looking for a new machine.
I use my computer just for general web and bogs and photography.
I just use lightroom, PhotoShop CS5, photomatix pro and the web browser.
I already have external firewire hard drives, so storage is not a concern.
I'm really thinking about buying a 13 inch air with the sandy bridge I5 and a thunderbolt display.
This way I could have a great display with ips for photo edit, an excellent dock with fast ports and have a truly portable laptop, unlike my 17 inch pro.
The other option was a 27 inch I5 imac.
It was cheaper. The thing is I don't really like the integrated display and computer concept. Although more expensive, a separate display could last me several laptops or computer generations.
so, after all this, if you've read this far, these are my questions to you:
- is the air really faster and noticiable more performant than my old macbook pro?
- for what I said I would use the computer, would the air do a good job?
- would the imac option be that much faster?
- any of you use the air for similar tasks? Any problems with raw files?
- any other advice?
Please help me out.
Thank you!
Cheers!